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Grosly Broken browser or wiki
by Greg Weeks 01 Sep '09

01 Sep '09

Something is messed up. Can someone undo the last edit I just did for the Science fiction bookshelf wiki page. It wiped it clean. -- Greg Weeks http://durendal.org:8080/greg/

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Rosetta Stone as eBook
by Michael S. Hart 25 Aug '09

25 Aug '09

We are exploring doing something on the order of public domain translations of the various Ancient Greek, Coptic, Hieroglyphs et al from The Rosetta Stone. Please advise if you would be interested in helping. We put this in Preprints: http://preprints.readingroo.ms/rosetta/ Including a README.TXT Original source: http://books.google.com/books?id=Q5Ow9Ub_BIgC&oe=UTF-8 it's also at archive.org, with raw OCR Many thanks!!! -- Greg and Michael

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Re: Suggestions for the DVD must haves?
by Greg M. Johnson 17 Aug '09

17 Aug '09

Here's an updated idea of how to do it: 1) Put in the complete, where available: i) Melvyn Bragg's Books that Changed the World ii) Norwegian Book Clubs in Oslo (2002) http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Best_Books_Ever_Listings_%28Bookshelf%29 2) Put in the Harvard Classics http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Harvard_Classics_%28Bookshelf%29 3) Put in the BestSellers 1900-1917: http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Bestsellers%2C_American%2C_1900-1922_%28Books… 4) The Most Popular 100 books from the last 30 days: http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/top#books-last30 5) Then, use a program to alternate between these three below until you run out of room: i) One randomly chosen item off of a randomly chosen Bookshelves http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Category:Bookshelf ii) The complete works of one author under your Most popular Authors last 30 days: http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/top#authors-last30 Just an idea. But that might be a cool, comprehensive way to make a collection. Candy + cod liver oil. -- Greg M. Johnson http://pterandon.blogspot.com

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Re: Fwd: Programmatic fetching books from Gutenberg
by Joshua Hutchinson 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

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Re: A Gutenberg text.A few poss. typos (fwd)
by Michael S. Hart 11 Aug '09

11 Aug '09

My email isn't getting through to bugs or errors(a)pglaf.org So I'm forwarding this here. Michael ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:17:09 -0400 From: Whitney Landon <swlandon(a)prexar.com> To: Michael S. Hart <hart(a)pglaf.org> Subject: Re: A Gutenberg text.A few poss. typos Happenstantial more-than-a-few-weeks-later find of this -- there's been no contact from bugs(a)pglaf.org . Thanks again. WL ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael S. Hart" <hart(a)pglaf.org> To: "Whitney Landon" <swlandon(a)prexar.com> Cc: <hart(a)pobox.com> Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 6:06 AM Subject: Re: A Gutenberg text.A few poss. typos > > I forwarded to bugs(a)pglaf.org for you. > > Let me know if you don't hear from them in a few weeks, > which is entirely possible, and I may take of it for you. > > Many thanks!!! > > > Michael > > > > On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Whitney Landon wrote: > > > A few probable/possible typos [in brackets, below] and a possible > > omission from:Title: The Great God Success > > > > Author: John Graham (David Graham Phillips) > > > > Release Date: April, 2005 [EBook #7989] > > [Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule] > > [This file was first posted on June 10, 2003] > > > > Edition: 10 > > > > 8gtgd10.txtOriginally published in 1901, per Wikipedia. No text date in > > Gutenberg download."Precisely. I think I will put you next [to] > > him."Washington Square, South, about--three years [that double-dash > > punctuation is weird; looking at it now it could well be the way it was > > published, having seen it a lot, but it's still weird]I do not want your > > friends[.] I do not want to be > > respectable. Howard held her away from him and studied her face, surprise > > in his eyes. > > "Isn't it strange?" he said.[paragraph break? Howard continues ...] > > "Here I've been seeing youopen window and she W[w]as propped with > > pillowsHoward took his rooms in the Royalton. ... his club where he was > > living for a few days [two don't mesh; hard to imagine how it's a typo, > > tho]_do_ [many such constructions: translate to italic if possible; can > > "search" for the _ (underline) to find them; maybe impossible with > > font/face]his power of concentration[.] Hea S[s]ense of relief and of > > calmness [probably]Provost and her niece, Miss Marion[typo? jab at > > newspapers' proclivities for typos? "Marian" with two "a"s, everywhere > > else]At a[ ]bound it had becomeHe drew a[ ]long breath > > and-------------------Thanks for the book. I learned about the author for > > the first time in the Times to/yesterday > > http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/11/us/politics/11senate.html?_r=1followed > > that with some Wikipedia, then came (only 2nd or 3rd time, but with > > confidence) to PG .... Finished in a sitting. Quite an experience. Thanks > > again.Whitney LandonBrooksville, Maine > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.0.237 / Virus Database: 270.11.9/1991 - Release Date: 03/09/09 07:14:00

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Re: Fwd: Programmatic fetching books from Gutenberg
by Joshua Hutchinson 11 Aug '09

11 Aug '09

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81 Left to English eBook #25,000
by Michael S. Hart 11 Aug '09

11 Aug '09

We still don't have a winner!

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Re: Fwd: Programmatic fetching books from Gutenberg
by Marcello Perathoner 11 Aug '09

11 Aug '09

David A. Desrosiers wrote: > If you're looking at it at that level, why not just offer some > streaming audio of the books as well? What's the advantage of streaming audio vs. getting the whole file at once?

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Re: Fwd: Programmatic fetching books from Gutenberg
by Joshua Hutchinson 11 Aug '09

11 Aug '09

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Book #25,000
by Christa & Jay Toser 10 Aug '09

10 Aug '09

I may be ignorant on this, but I cannot find a complete English copy of the Koran (or however they spell it) anywhere on Project Gutenberg. So also, HOW do they spell it in English? Jay Toser

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